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I had similar school experiences, as did many of the peoplethat are now my friends. I think the experience of schoolactively damaged my ability to deal with people.

I like to call it the "prison model".

I would have been way better off just hanging out with askilled programmer for a few years in my teens, and readingon my own about other stuff. Particularly given that theversion of history presented in US public schools is rather,um, selective and often just wrong.